We just started on the first of April and it has been a wonderful success.
We started with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We explained before we started that we would read one chapter a night and it would take us 30 days to finish it.
He loved it and had great understanding from it.
Then we got #1 Magic Tree House and #1 Dinosaur Cove - he loved both. We're in the middle of Gerenomo Stilton and none of us are really fans.
We've been doing them for a few months now. He loved the Horrid Henry books by Francesca Simon. He liked The Magic Finger (Roald Dahl) but lost interest in the BFG halfway through. Loved Henry Huggins (Beverly Cleary). And we started on the Magic Tree House series a couple weeks ago love them.
Joe has issues with sitting still for things but if there is a book or story being read then he will sit for a long time.
We just started on the first of April and it has been a wonderful success.
We started with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We explained before we started that we would read one chapter a night and it would take us 30 days to finish it.
He loved it and had great understanding from it.
Then we got #1 Magic Tree House and #1 Dinosaur Cove - he loved both. We're in the middle of Gerenomo Stilton and none of us are really fans.
Does anyone have any other recommendations?
sonya, josie too? i'm wondering how jake would do.
i hadn't even thought about this, but i love the idea. part of emily's therapy at school is reinforcing her to summarize and retell stories. i think chapter books would be great for this since we can review what we read yesterday and predict what will happen tomorrow.
We just started on the first of April and it has been a wonderful success.
We started with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We explained before we started that we would read one chapter a night and it would take us 30 days to finish it.
He loved it and had great understanding from it.
Then we got #1 Magic Tree House and #1 Dinosaur Cove - he loved both. We're in the middle of Gerenomo Stilton and none of us are really fans.
Does anyone have any other recommendations?
sonya, josie too? i'm wondering how jake would do.
i hadn't even thought about this, but i love the idea. part of emily's therapy at school is reinforcing her to summarize and retell stories. i think chapter books would be great for this since we can review what we read yesterday and predict what will happen tomorrow.
Josie tolerates it. We have to generally read her a book first and at the end and someone has to hold a hand over her mouth to keep her from talking the whole way through it (totally joking (kind of), lmao).
She does talk about the things that are happening in the books so she's sort of listening but she certainly doesn't get as much out of it as Char.
I'm considering having one of us read to charlie and the other read to Jo but right now, she's sitting through it decently.
Charlie has always been a book kid. Apparently, at daycare, if a book is being read anywhere in the daycare room, no matter what Charlie is doing, he runs over to hear the story.
Josie's more concerned with being pretty than smart. :)
Charlie has always been a book kid. Apparently, at daycare, if a book is being read anywhere in the daycare room, no matter what Charlie is doing, he runs over to hear the story.
Josie's more concerned with being pretty than smart. :)
LMAO!!!! She's doing awfully well at that too. :)
I tried reading the first chapter of The Moffatts to Mason a few months ago, and he kept interrupting me to talk. So I don't think he's ready yet, LOL. I can't wait until he is though!
And while Mason loved to be read to at 1, Peepers insists on holding the book and turning the pages, and then eating the book, so it's impossible to read stories to her unless I'm across the room.
I got kind of giddy the other day thinking about reading the Little House series with her when she's older!
Lucas would never tolerate it. We usually read two full books per night. I read one and he reads the other. He would make me keep reading and get uber pissed when I didnt LOL. I may consider introducing them during the summer though. The super easy reader ones that he will be able to read himself.
Steve and I are big readers, we met in a library! So, Andrew has been getting chapter books read to him for years. The Magic Treehouse books are always huge hits. Sometimes we'll read a whole book before bed, sometimes he'll fall asleep in the middle of the book.
He like the Andrew Lost series. Andrew Lost on the Dog, in the Deep. Andrew gets shrunk and has an adventure. It's entertaining and educational. In the Deep is all about sea creatures.
Right now I'm reading him No Children, No Pets. It was a book my mom had when she was young, and I loved it when I was a kid. It's from the 50's. A mom, her 3 kids, and cat get an apartment building in Florida left to them by thier great, great Uncle. He falls asleep to that after about a chapter and a half.
Hadn't thought about it, but Travis is itching to start the Hank to Cowdog series, mostly because he loves it. I'm sure we'll be starting very soon. Koda still loves pictures though, so we'll see.
In March we checked out from the library Leprachaun in Late Winter,(I think) a Magic Treehouse book. It was hardcover and Brand New. We were the first to check it out. Andrew was over the moon. No pages were torn, no writing on them. He even took it to PreSchool to show his teacher. We get most of those kind of books from the library, but they get used so much, that they aren't in great condition. It was so sweet to see him so excited about being the first to read that book.
In Mark's preschool class, they've been reading what they call "Jack and Annie" books (Magic Treehouse books) and the kids sit and listen.
Also, Mark likes to listen when Henry and I read chapter books. Henry really loved the Junie B. series for a while, and now both kids really love the Weird School series by Dan Gutman.
So I guess he's been listening to them since the beginning of last summer.
Definitely not doing chapter books yet. Maybe this summer.
